Practice Areas

Michael D. Huber

Michael D. Huber is a founding member and managing partner with extensive trial experience in state and federal courts throughout the country.He holds an “AV” attorney rating (highest rating) from the peer rating system of Martindale Hubbell. Mr. Huber has over 30 years of experience in the prevention, supervision, preparation and trial of complex tort and commercial litigation throughout the United States, concentrating in catastrophic loss cases. Mr. Huber received his juris doctorate with honorsfrom the Indiana University School of Law. He has consistently been selected as an Illinois Leading Lawyer in both Product Liability and Medical Malpractice Defense, and as an Illinois Super Lawyer by Law & Politics Magazine in Defense Litigation. He is a Senior Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America and the American Academy of Trial Counsel. Mr. Huber is a frequent presenter and writer for various medical groups, the Defense Research Institute, the Trucking Industry Defense Association and the International Association of Defense Counsel, having served as a faculty member for the IADC Trial Academy. His presentations at legal and business conferences span a wide array of topics including complex commercial, professional, medical, transportation, construction and products liability defense, jury trial innovations, limiting damages and preventative law techniques. Mr. Huber also serves in the capacity of private mediator and arbitrator in a wide variety of actions and as an expert witness in bad-faith and professional liability matters.

Papers and Published Works

Show Me the Contract: The Nonsensical Need for Contractual Privity on a Construction Site to Obtain Additional Insured Status, with Zachary Shook, DRI The Critical Path, Winter Issue 2014 – Click to read

“Unlike,” “Delete Post,” “Delete Photo” and “Delete Comment:” The New Buzzwords in Twenty-First Century Spoliation, and Their Impact on the Trucking Industry, with Eryk J. Wachnik, TIDA, 2013-Click to read.

Faculty member/speaker at the Illinois Podiatric Medical Association Annual Meeting to the Illinois Society of Podiatric Medical Assistants, “Professionalism in the Age of Social Media,” October 17, 2014.

Faculty member/speaker at the Illinois Podiatric Medical Association Annual Meeting to the Illinois Society of Podiatric Medical Assistants, “To Malpractice or to not Malpractice, that is the Question,” September 14, 2012.

Faculty member/speaker at St. Joseph’s Hospital and St. Anthony Hospital Combined CME Seminar, “To Practice or to Malpractice? That is the Question. Avoiding Podiatric Malpractice,” Chicago, Illinois, October 6, 2010.